On 7/31/09 3:55 PM, Brian Aker wrote:
Hi!
On Jul 31, 2009, at 11:34 AM, Davi Arnaut wrote:
Frankly, writing crap code has nothing to do with warnings and such.
It's like blaming the pen a author used to write a crappy book. No
amount of warning can make a someone learn good development practices
or know the language.
Looking around at the project though, some of this is historical baggage
that has more to do with "not keeping up" then anything. When MySQL was
put together originally a lot of what we take for granted now wasn't
around. You can snicker at it, call it bad... but sometimes it just had
to do with what was the convention of the time. For a lot of the warts
in the code/design I remember why they were done at the time... not all
decisions were good, but most were understandable.
I agree and thanks for the historical perspective. I just hope we can
revisit those design decision nowadays.
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